UT2004 start up problems..

[mtweldon]

I got the game installed, and it started up the first time and I played for probably 30 mins fine. Logged out and now im trying to start up again and the start up screen flashes with the ut2004 and it does nothing.
did sh ut2004 in the folder and get this:


Can't find 'ini:Engine.Engine.GameEngine' in configuration file

History:

Exiting due to error

what do I do ?

[monkey4]

In your ut2004 System folder, try renaming ut2004.ini to ut2004.bak and then copy default.ini to ut2004.ini

[mtweldon]

only thing i see in my system folder is ut2004.det, .est, . frt, . itt, .kot and ut2004-bin
no .ini

[monkey4]

Is there a default.ini? If so, copy it to the same folder as ut2004.ini

[Harleen]

You probably have started UT2004 using sudo, resulting in a .ut2004 directory in your home directory that only root is allowed to read. This happens, if you press the "play now" button on the end of the installation. You can repair it by using this command:

sudo chown <user>:<user> ~/.ut2004 -R

<user> is to be replaced by your local user name, of course. This command will transfer the ownership of that directory to your normal user.

[mtweldon]

ahh thats exactly what I did, thanks.. Will try this once I get off school / work.

[fiendskull9]

hey

no need to edit the permissions, just run it sudo ut2004.

it worked for me

clay

[Harleen]

Of course does this work. But you should never work as root if it's not really needed. And gaming does not count as system administration - unless you are playing psDoom (http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/). ;)